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Bernie Sanders: “Let us not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country. I ask unanimous consent to add…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2013
Let us not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country. I ask unanimous consent to add Senator Whitehouse to my amendment No. 198. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Delaware.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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govinfo.gov
Mar 22, 2013

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